Perhaps the most important reason to continue to remember the Holocaust is to honour the memory of the millions of innocent people whose lives were cut short. In this poem, written in August 1942 in response to deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp, Władysław Szlengelencouraged readers to remember the humanity of the victims by focussing on the fate of an apparently unremarkable Jewish mother.

Monument

For heroes – poems, rhapsodies!!!For heroes the homage of posterity,their names engraved on plinthsand a monument of marble.